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REL/fm 7/2/79 ORDINANCE NO. NS-1497 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA AMENDING SECTION 39-53 OF THE SANTA ANA MUNICIPAL CODE AND ADDING SECTION 39-54 THERETO TO ESTABLISH NEW SEWER CONNECTION REQUIREMENTS AND ADDING ARTICLE VI TO CHAPTER 13, TO ESTABLISH A SEWER CONNECTION FEE FUND. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1: That section 39-53 of the Santa Aha Municipal Code, is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 39-53 Connection permit required; determination of fee. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) hereinbelow, no person shall make any sewer connection unless a permit therefor shall have been applied for and issued by the Director of Public Works. No permit for such connection shall be issued by the Director of Public Works as provided in this section unless the application therefor is accompanied by the payment of a fee to the city in an amount which the Director of Public Works shall determine to be said applicant's proportionate share of the cost of construction of such public sewer, as prescribed in subsection (c). (b) Whenever a main sewer line is replaced by a new line, the laterals connected to the former line shall be connected to the new line as part of the installation thereof. In such event no permit shall be required from the owner or occupant of any existing premises thus reconnected. (c) The sewer connection fee for the applicant's proportionate share of the cost of public sewer construction shall be computed on the following basis: (1) Except as provided in subparagraph (2) below, the fee shall be an amount equal to the assessment per fixture unit, multiplied by the net increase in fixture units on the parcel or parcels for which sewer connection application is made, over the total fixture units previously serviced by any sewer line to which such parcel or parcels were connected. The number of fixture units assigned to each plumbing fixture shall be as provided in the Plumbing Code of the City of Santa Ana. (2) In the case of a sewer connection application for a parcel or parcels not previously connected to a public sewer, the fee for the first occupancy unit benefited by the connection shall be seventy five percent (75%) of the standard cost of construction of a main sewer line for a distance equal to the lineal frontage of the parcel or parcels along the street in which the sewer line is located. In the event that more than one occupancy unit is to be connected, the applicant may designate which unit thereof shall be deemed the first occupancy unit for purposes of this section. The fee for the remaining occupancy units shall be as provided in subparagraph (1) hereinabove.